Page Nine

Monday, October 27, 2014

If
you tried to find out what recently happened in court ending the
criminal case against former GOP Congressman Tom DeLay, almost all
the results that come up are from conservative sites. The left-wing
news media deliberately ignored the story of his total legal
exoneration earlier this month. Contrast this with the multiple,
lengthy front-page articles than ran for years gleefully covering the
progression of the politically motivated attacks on him.I
saved an article taking up the top half of the front page of The
New York Times from
2006 - with a huge photo of DeLay high-fiving my cousin, a
Congressional staffer - announcing that DeLay was being forced to
leave Congress due to the indictment. In contrast, the Timesprinted
a tiny,
three-sentence paragraphabout
the exoneration that was buried in the print edition on page A20.When
DeLay was indicted in 2005, most people around the country did not
understand how politically motivated the left-wing Travis County
District Attorney was. Now that sitting Texas Governor Rick Perry is
being prosecutedby
current DA Rosemary Lehmberg, a convicted drunk driver, the targeting
by that Democrat-controlled office is finally coming to light. The
Austin-based office badly overstretched going after the popular
governor, and now its history of corrupt prosecutions are all coming
to light.

Former
GOP Senator Kay Bay Hutchinson was also indicted by the same office,
and fortunately for her, then
Travis County DA Ronnie Earle’s boguswitchhunt
was thrown out. DeLay describes what happened to Earle’s
prosecution, “The case [against Sen. Hutchison] did go to court,
and his case absolutely imploded the day they went to trial. The
judge kicked them all out of his courtroom.”